I won’t play again, I want to leave says Twins young star

You didn’t think it was going to be smooth sailing, did you? The Minnesota Twins are already facing a worst-case injury scenario, though hopefully, that will turn out to be only in terms of who is hurt, rather than how badly.

The first few innings of the 2024 season couldn’t have gone much better for Royce Lewis. He hit a no-doubt home run in his first plate appearance of the season, and a no-doubt single in his second. He looked like the same dynamic, wonderfully watchable player he was for much of 2023, when he was able to stay on the field between injuries.

Alas, just moments after that single, Lewis was out of the game. Carlos Correa’s double into the left-field corner couldn’t score Lewis, because the latter pulled up lame between second and third base. So far, all the team has announced is that it’s an injury to Lewis’s right quad. Edouard Julien took over for him.

The Twins have to have been expecting some missed time for either Byron Buxton or Carlos Correa. Those guys have battled injuries that are often chronic over the last few years, and each is now getting into their 30s. Lewis, though, had to be the healthy ancho for the middle of this lineup. Almost two years clear of his second torn ACL, and given the way he hammered opposing pitching before and after missing time with an oblique strain last summer, it was reasonable to hope that the still-young former first overall pick would finally get a chance to pile up 550 plate appearances in a season and prove his superstar upside.

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Now, that (and a whole lot more about the Twins’ season) is in very real doubt. We’ll have to wait to hear more, as the team undertakes tests and examines their should-be star third baseman.

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